CD322: Last Quarter in Congress — Indefinite Detention, Regulation Murders & Empowered Trump Minions
Congressional Dish
Jennifer Briney
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2025
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
Since the beginning of this Congress, there have been 24 new laws signed and dozens of confirmations shaping our government in President Trump's second term. From the Laken Riley Act's attack on immigrant rights, to the One Big Beautiful Bill's devastating effects on healthcare and the environment, to quiet but powerful confirmations of billionaires, bankers, and loyalists into positions that control our economy and foreign policy, this is a moment when Congress is rewriting the rules of our democracy. If you want to understand how decisions made in Washington are enriching corporations, weakening protections, and reshaping the future we all live in, this is an episode you can't afford to skip.
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| 0:00.0 | In the beginning of the 119th Congress, there was a lot of laws that were passed because of the |
| 0:05.8 | Congressional Review Act, which were essentially regulation killers. |
| 0:10.0 | So out of the 34 new laws, 16 of them, almost half of the new laws, were regulation killers. |
| 0:16.5 | Congress passed SJ Res 28, and this is a regulation killer that has to do at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. |
| 0:23.7 | What Congress did is they killed a regulation by the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection that would have policed digital payment applications just like any bank is policed. |
| 0:33.2 | And so what this did in reality is that this essentially exempts Apple Pay and Google Pay and |
| 0:39.0 | Cash App and PayPal and Venmo, all those type of apps from Consumer Financial Protection |
| 0:43.6 | Bureau policing. |
| 0:44.9 | Allowing them to escape accountability, you know, that certainly doesn't protect me, the user, |
| 0:50.6 | but it does protect them, which I think shows us pretty clearly who our members of Congress |
| 0:55.7 | are currently serve it. |
| 0:56.8 | I am so damn tired of being lied to. I don't think I can't deny it anymore. |
| 1:18.6 | You can't stick to your story if you think it flies. |
| 1:25.6 | But I'm not going to buy it anymore. |
| 1:31.5 | Hello, my friend, and thank you for listening to the 32nd episode of Congressional Dish. |
| 1:33.1 | I'm your host Jennifer Briney. |
| 1:35.1 | And today, we are going to look at what Congress accomplished in the first eight |
| 1:40.2 | months of the year before they took off on their five-week summer vacation. |
| 1:44.1 | Because it's not |
| 1:45.1 | like this executive branch needs oversight or anything. So yeah, of course they should take five |
| 1:50.9 | weeks off while D.C. gets invaded by the National Guard and stuff. But yeah, Congress is coming |
| 1:59.7 | back to work after Labor Day. |
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